Episode 1517

	Sesame Street
	Big Bird waits for the sun; (repeat of 1197)
Air date	March 3, 1981
Season	Season 12 (1980-1981)
Sponsors	I, U, 2
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Luis, Big Bird and the kids practice tying knots.
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — While Bert is reading, Ernie tries to scare him by dressing up as a ghost. When Ernie notices that Bert left his chair while he fetched a white sheet, Ernie sits down in the chair and relaxes, until Bert enters the room and startles him. (EKA: Episode 1448)
	Cartoon	A showman hawks his invisible chicken, which turns out to be a duck. (EKA: Episode 1020)
	Cast	Finger Theater: Linda's fingers act out a story.
File:Pinball2.jpg	Cartoon	Pinball Number Count #2 Artist: Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 1056)
	Muppets	A story about Lola the cow, who tries to find her home. She first tries to climb a tree to get into a nest, but Little Bird tells her that it's not her home. She then tries to crawl down a hole in the ground, but that turns out to belong to an earthworm. She tries to get into a trash can, which belongs to Oscar. She finally finds a barn and is invited in by another cow. (First: Episode 0497)
	Cartoon	A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U. (EKA: Episode 0494)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie sings "Happy Birthday" to a letter U, which blows out the candle on the cake.
	Cartoon	A U train spells the words "unite," "U-turn," "underground," "up," and "universe." (First: Episode 0624)
	Film	George the Farmer shows on top of. (EKA: Episode 0298)
	Muppets	Telly Monster hosts "Cooking with Telly," where he demonstrates where the plate should go when serving a sandwich. (First: Episode 1450)
	Cartoon	A man lifts a rock and finds the word UNDER. (EKA: Episode 1123)
	Cartoon	Train #2 (EKA: Episode 0536)
	Muppets	Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie and Jason make faces.
	Cartoon	Typewriter: U for Umbrella Artist: Jeff Hale (EKA: Episode 0891)
	SCENE	Big Bird and Maria observe the sunset and Maria explains how it works. After she heads out, Big Bird wonders if anyone's ever woken up with the sun to greet it. He proposes to be the first to do so.
	Animation	Three rocks use different methods to get across a lake. Artist: Al Jarnow (EKA: Episode 1459)
	SCENE	Big Bird prepares a "Welcome Sun" sign and finds a good place to sit and wait, believing he can stay up all night long (he's part owl, after all). The grown-ups assure him that he'll fall asleep before the sun rises. Big Bird tells them he'll prove them wrong and bids them all a goodnight, but soon starts to fall asleep himself.
	Cartoon	The dot gets on top of the lowercase letter i. Artist: Fred Garbers (EKA: Episode 0815)
	Film	An I-beam is molded at a steel factory as heavy industrial-type music underscores the action. The segment ends on a video freeze of the finished beam, which is shaped like the letter "I." (EKA: Episode 1450)
	SCENE	Big Bird's alarm wakes him up and he preps his "Welcome Sun" routine, but doesn't see the sun at all. He gets upset, when the sun starts to rise after all. He greets it with a song ("Good Morning, Mister Sun"). Maria comes outside to check on him and Big Bird wonders what he'll do with the rest of his day, but falls back asleep within moments.
	Muppets	The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun. (First: Episode 0453)
File:Mustwatchgame!.jpg	Cartoon	Three characters try to watch a baseball game over a fence, then cooperate by stacking their blocks. (EKA: Episode 0600)
	SCENE	Luis and David run into Big Bird, sitting back at the table. Only this time, he's planning to welcome the moon instead. As he waits, he falls back asleep.
Known missing segments
Picture	Segment	Description
	Celebrity	Richie Havens sings "Here Comes the Sun." (EKA: Episode 1080)
	Muppets	A Jimmy Durante-type monster sings about the importance of the nose.